Reelected president of the French Football Federation until 2024, Philippe Diallo has announced his ambitions for the Olympic Games in Paris. The leader wants to present the best possible team, in particular with striker Kylian Mbappé.
This is already one of Philippe Diallo’s objectives. After his re-election at the helm of the French Football Federation this Saturday, Noël Le Graët’s successor was ambitious for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The president of the body refuses to reproduce the fiasco of Tokyo 2021, when the refusal of the clubs to release their players had forced France to present a very diminished team.
“Usually when we talk about the Olympic Games, we don’t immediately think of football, but this time the Games are taking place in France and Paris. French football must respond present” https://t.co/HUCJI6tQPO
—FFF (@FFF) June 10, 2023
” Football is sometimes the poor relation of the Olympic Games. But the fact that it’s in Paris obliges usannounced Philippe Diallo. We are going to be a flagship discipline if we can mobilize our licensees, our territories. We will have to form the most efficient team, we all have a name in mind that would increase our ambition tenfold. The boss of French football is obviously thinking of the Paris Saint-Germain striker.
Mbappé to make history
” Kylian Mbappé has already spoken on the subject. He wants to participaterecalled the leader, ready to take advantage of the great ambitions of the Parisian. Through their characteristics, the Olympic Games make athletes dream. And I believe that with its best players, our team can reach the podium. Kylian Mbappé is a record hunter and having a gold medal will be a way for him to make history. “Except that the calendar may be a problem.
” The sequence will be complicated with the Euro, the Olympics, the L1. It’s a heavy sequence. But the Olympics, it’s been a century since we had them. We experienced a form of stampede in Tokyo. I don’t want us to go through the same difficulties. We are going to undertake a work of conviction. We are going to make our professional clubs aware of the fact that it is in the general interest to field the best team “, assured Philippe Diallo, aware that the clubs will be in a position of strength, the Olympics not being integrated into the dates of FIFA.
